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SREs are a tool to turn N ops engineers paid X each into 1 SRE paid 2X and N manual laborers paid X/4 each. This doesn't make the role bad. But it's important
by dogecoinbase 10y ago
SREs are a tool to turn N ops engineers paid X each into 1 SRE paid 2X and N manual laborers paid X/4 each.
This doesn't make the role bad. But it's important to remember that the role exists as a cost savings to the org, not because it's an inherently better way to run a technical infrastructure.
- pram 10y agoActually in most places I've seen 'ops' just turned into 'SRE'
- otoburb 10y agoAnd because other organizations are sold on the idea that SREs can realize cost savings benefits without compromising reliability of their technology assets, boards and c-suite teams definitively define this as a better way to run technical infrastructure.
- icebraining 10y agoManual laborers? At Google? What are they doing?
- tyingq 10y agoI would guess they are referring to the people racking and stacking equipment, running network cables, doing any needed physical reboots, swapping out old servers, etc.